Kay made the decision to remove Richard from life support. The doctor’s told Kay he would never awaken. Other times she read scientific papers and helped him puzzle out their meanings.Īs Richard’s disease progressed, he spent most of his time sleeping.
Sometimes she read the poems or stories they both loved. Facing the battle with cancer and taking medication that made it difficult for him to focus, he could hardly read at all anymore. Richard, dyslexic from birth, had always found it hard to read.
Kay describes their last two Christmases together as quiet peaceful times. The second part of “Nothing Was the Same” deals with Richard’s illness. Together, the two of them discovered that taking lithium and getting plenty of sleep helped to keep Kay’s moods stable. He often went with her when she visited her psychiatrist. Richard never treated Kay as a patient, but he did worry about her bipolar disorder. They were both devoted academics who taught, published and read voraciously. The first section of the book describes how Kay and Richard met and fell in love. They enjoyed nature, poetry, music and science. The resulting book, published in 2009, was called “Nothing Was the Same.” In crisis mode, Kay again put pen to paper to try to make sense of her life. His doctors gave him between six and 18 months to live. Kay’s husband, Richard Wyatt, a neuropsychiatrist, was diagnosed with lung cancer. With the help of her husband, family, friends and psychiatric treatment, her moods slowly stabilized. She wrote about suffering the unbearable lows of depression and the shattering highs of mania. In 1995, Kay Redfield Jamison published her book, “An Unquiet Mind” about her struggle with bipolar disorder.
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